Installing Windows XP form a USB Pendrive

Hi,

Some of you may face situations to install Win XP from a USB pendrive. The installation of XP from a USB drive is not an easy task.Just copying the installation and booting files to the pendrive may not help you to Boot and install XP from a pendrive.
First you need the Support of BIOS to boot from the pendrive.The older motherbord's BIOS may not have options to do this.An updating of BIOS will fix this problem.The newer BIOS have this option built in.
Then you need a good quality pendrive.When i'm used a woring sandisk cruzer 2GB drive the installation has failed several times.I don't know the reason for this.But when i'm used another one ,it was successfull at the first attempt itself.
Then you need a program called USB multi boot.You can get it from here.It is a wonderfull utilty helps you to install XP from a USB.I tried several other utiltiiees and failed.But this one helped me very much.Thanx to the authers.
Download the above program and extract to a folder.
Place an XP CD on the drive.
Put a pendrive to the system.

Then follow these steps:

Run the usb_multiboot_10.cmd file.
Presss any key to contine.
Select the formatting option.Then the program will format the pendrive.Leave the formatting options on the programs unchnged if you hav no idea what to do..

After formatting completed a new menu appers with several options.
Set options 1 and 2.Choose the pendrive location and the XP CD drive.
Choose 3 after setting the 1 and 2.Answer yes to all the ques appering on the way. You have options to do un attended installation also.

After successfully finishes the copying , remove the drive.
Reboot the system needed to install XP. When starting up,press appropriate key to change the boot order.
Select the USB drive as the first bootable device.The sytem will now boot form pendrive.Choose the option 1 [text installation] on the menu appears.
after the sytem reboot select the option 2[GUI installation].
Remove the drive only after you successfully logon to the system.


Check out : http://wiki.eeeuser.com/windowsxpusb
for more info.

I know it's not an easy task.I tried other programs and failed several times; but finally succeded to install XP in my laptop.

Hope you will have a worry free installtion.
pg vzr

MG university-MCA syllabus [2007 onwards]

 
MG University-Kottayam,Kerala
MCA  SYLLABUS [2007  onwards]
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Ist sem.

   MCA101 - Mathematical Foundation of Computer Science

   MCA102 - Probability & Statistics

   MCA103 - Digital Systems & Computer Hardware

   MCA104 - Principles of Management and Accounting

   MCA105 - Problem Solving and Programming in C

   MCA106 - C Programming - Lab

   MCA107 - PC Hardware Lab

IInd Sem.

   MCA201 - Computer Organization and Architecture

   MCA202 - Data Structures

   MCA203 - Microprocessors & Embedded Systems

   MCA204 - Object Oriented Programming and C++

   MCA205 - Management information system.

   MCA206 - Data Structures - Lab

   MCA207 - C++ Lab

IIIrd Sem.

   MCA301 - Computer Graphics

   MCA302 - Data Base Management System

   MCA303 - System Software

   MCA304 - Data Communication & Computer Networks

   MCA305 - Software Engineering

   MCA306 - Micro Processors - Lab

   MCA307 - Computer Graphics and Multimedia - Lab

IVth Sem.

   MCA401 - Optimization Technique

   MCA402 - Operating Systems

   MCA403 - Algorithm Analysis and Design

   MCA404 - Java and Web Programming

   MCA405- Elective I

   MCA406- DBMS - Lab

   MCA407 - Java and  Web programming  - Lab

Vth Sem.

   MCA501 - Software Project Management

   MCA502 - Internet Technology and Applications.

   MCA503 - Linux Internals

   MCA504 - Data Mining & Ware Housing

   MCA505 - Elective - II

     
   MCA506 - Linux Lab

   MCA507 - Mini Project

   MCA508 - Seminar

VIth Sem.

   MCA601 - Project

   MCA602 - Viva-voce

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   Elective -I
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   Visual Programming

   Client Server Computing Applications

   Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic

   Business Data Processing and Cobol programming.

   Entrepreneurship

   Enterprise Resource Planning.

   Object Oriented Modeling and Design
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 Elective- II
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      Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing

       Distributed Computing

       Artificial Intelligence

       Cryptography and Network Security

       Multimedia Systems

       Bio Informatics

       Digital Image Processing.

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XP in SATA without floppy drive.

Hi friends,
Some of you may face problem with installing XP into a SATA drive-espesially the laptop guys.(i'm also).
I have a Compaq Presario C3780tu lap.The setup may not recognise the SATA drive and ask for drivers in a floppy!(press F9). But Microsoft Windows does not provide any option to a system without a floppy drive.The setup will prompt to exit due to unrecognised SATA drive (no other option at all!).
There is a small utiltiy called n lite will help in this problem, It's an XP ISO builder which will allow to integrate the neccessary drivers, service packs ,patches,hotfixes etc. to a single bootable XP ISO.
You can get it from:
http://www.nliteos.com/download.html
Install it.
Now download or locate the driver for your SATA Drive , extract and place it in a folder.
Run nlite and put an XP CD in drive.Select an extraction path.Select 'integrate driver' option from nlite menu. Point out the driver .inf file you saved. Make sure that you selected text mode driver and the correct controller for your device. Make an ISO.,burn it and boot with it.
Now the installation will continue normally;it will recognise the drive and will not ask for a floppy drive or F9 press any more.The setup continues normally.

Now i'm running XP instaed of hungry Vista.

You can get the more detailed info from:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Instal ... t-a-Floppy-F6-47807.shtml

anoop.

conflicker virus

The Conficker virus, which has infected millions of computers around the world, is finally activating itself in a bid to become a money-making machine for cybercriminals.Infected machines have started to update themselves and download a fake anti-virus program aimed at tricking users into paying out for useless security software, security researchers said.Researchers at Kaspersky Labs found that Conficker was downloading a fake $49.95 security scanner called Spyware Protect 2009, which may mean millions of Conficker-infected machines will start getting pop-up messages advertising the product.
The Conficker virus started spreading late last year.Once the worm is on a computer, that PC becomes part of a “botnet” – a network of computers that can be controlled by the virus's creator.
A task force assembled by Microsoft has been working to stamp out the worm and the company has placed a bounty of $250,000 on the heads of those responsible for the threat.

source:net

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check availability of user names

hi,


Most of you may don't have the desired user name in the websites.Checking the availability manually may be a tough task.
Follow:

http://namechk.com/

Check to see if your desired username is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Promote your brand consistently by registering a username that is still available on the majority of the most popular sites.



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old versions

Hi,



Some of you may like the old versions of softwares that takes a minimunm resources to do thier job.

Just visit the site to look through a list of old version apps.

http://www.oldversion.com/



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Cyber hall of Fame

hi,

'Rules are made to be broken the same way networks are made to be hacked into.'
These are nine of the most infamous criminal hackers to ever see the inside of a jail cell.
Just look through the list(by pc mag.) of cyber criminals, who caught up by cyber laws around the world. :-

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2329604,00.asp


'The best criminal hacker is the one that isn't caught—or even identified. '
This is the list 10 of the most infamous unsolved computer crimes (made by pc mag.) take a look @:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2C2817%2C2331225%2C00.asp


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